The Observer: Don’t vote before you read this
Sunday May 30, 2004
Heather Connon hears fighting talk from bosses of two very pugnacious shareholder activists
‘Vote often, vote early and vote on an informed basis’ is a motto that Sarah Wilson hopes will become universally accepted. Wilson is founder and managing director of Manifest, the corporate governance and proxy voting agency, which aims to help institutional investors do just that.
Its team of 26 employees produces reports analysing the resolutions put forward at the annual meetings of every British company, highlighting where they do not comply with best practice, comparing salary and bonus levels with averages for the industry and the market as a whole, calculating what that complicated incentive scheme could mean in pounds and pence. When its clients have digested this and decided how to vote, Manifest then ticks the appropriate box – or, more frequently, presses the appropriate button – on their behalf. read more
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